December 2008

We  frequently go to the Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge area of the The Great Smokey Mountains National Park.  While there, we sometimes fish along Rt. 441 between Gatlinburg and Cherokee NC.  We also walk up some of the smaller streams seeking the somewhat feisty wild rainbow and brookie trout,  leaving the lower elevations to the brown trout.  It always a beautiful.

The new line of fishing rods called Helios by Orvis is an award winning line of rods that has gotten the attention of Businessweek.  Businessweek has written an article about the line of rods that is now selling at 300% over target for the year.  Orvis is counting on this line of 14 different rods to juice up their Christmas sales which would otherwise be very slow this season.

Tommy Sliker is an alumni of TroutU who has the talent of catching fish wherever he happens to fish.  Here is a picture of him that was recently posted on a blog.  This is a lunker trout caught, I suspect, on the Davidson River in North Carolina.  While at the TroutU, Tommy was an avid student of trout fishing using both the fly rod and the spinning outfit.  His recent outing to a secret location in North Carolina yielded three trout, all over 12 inches.   All three were caught on Rapala lures.